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Definitions for interesting
ˈɪn tər ə stɪŋ, -trə stɪŋ, -təˌrɛs tɪŋin·ter·est·ing
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word interesting.
Princeton's WordNet
interestingadjective
arousing or holding the attention
Wiktionary
interestingadjective
Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.
Webster Dictionary
Interesting
of Interest
Interestingadjective
engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news
Freebase
Interesting
"Interesting" was the fifth episode of British sitcom The Young Ones. It was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer, and directed by Paul Jackson. It was first broadcast on BBC2 on 7 December 1982.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
interesting
In hacker parlance, this word has strong connotations of ‘annoying’, or ‘difficult’, or both. Hackers relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out of the ancient Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times”. Oppose trivial, uninteresting.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'interesting' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1182
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'interesting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #592
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'interesting' in Adjectives Frequency: #126
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of interesting in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of interesting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of interesting in a Sentence
Sometimes the most interesting findings are the ones we weren't looking for.
I've always said this was really important. I feel after today's testimony even more so, i think it will be interesting to see what happens with his public appearance tomorrow. It may cover more ground.
Cambridge came in and they had this whole idea that was very interesting to use with this psychographic data and how it could be used, i’m still not unconvinced that it could be used, but it was definitely not perfected. So they end up being a competent data company, but that extra thing they were promising, they really didn’t deliver on.
They were certainly reading probably the most relevant ones as well. Some of the less relevant ones are ones being passed around. It's an interesting process, i've never seen anything like that before. ... This is unusual circumstances calling for kind of( an) unusual process.
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
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Translations for interesting
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- مُشَوِّقArabic
- maraqlıAzerbaijani
- ціка́выBelarusian
- интере́сенBulgarian
- interessantCatalan, Valencian
- zajímavýCzech
- diddorolWelsh
- interessantDanish
- interessantGerman
- ενδιαφέρωνGreek
- interesaEsperanto
- interesanteSpanish
- huvitavEstonian
- جالبPersian
- mielenkiintoinen, kiinnostava, kiintoisaFinnish
- intéressantFrench
- nijsgjirrichWestern Frisian
- spéisiúil, suimiúilIrish
- inntinneachScottish Gaelic
- interesanteGalician
- מענייןHebrew
- रोचक, दिलचस्पHindi
- érdekesHungarian
- հետաքրքիրArmenian
- interessanteInterlingua
- interesantaIdo
- athyglisverðurIcelandic
- interessanteItalian
- 面白いJapanese
- საინტერესოGeorgian
- 흥미롭다, 흥미로운Korean
- įdomusLithuanian
- интересен, за́нимливMacedonian
- interessant, belangwekkendDutch
- interessantNorwegian
- interessantOccitan
- ciekawy, interesującyPolish
- interessantePortuguese
- interesantRomanian
- заня́тный, интере́сныйRussian
- रोचकSanskrit
- zanimljiv, интересантан, interesantan, занимљивSerbo-Croatian
- zaujímavýSlovak
- zanimivSlovene
- interesantAlbanian
- intressantSwedish
- ఆసక్తికరమైనTelugu
- ilginç, enteresanTurkish
- ціка́вийUkrainian
- روچک, دلچسپUrdu
- nitedikVolapük
- טשיקאַווע, אינטערעסאַנטYiddish
- 有Chinese
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